Madeline Tyler and her two best friends, Ellie Jo Johnson and Olivia Chaplin, have just graduated from high school in Griffin, Georgia, in the spring of 1961. In search of a better life than rural Georgia offers, the girls set off in the pursuit of their dreams--but it isn't long before life steps in and derails their plans. Madeline's dreams of attending college are cut short by the deteriorating health of her father, and she finds herself...